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Paperback / softback. New. As time passes, personal memories of the Great Depression die with those who lived through the desperate 1930s. In the absence of firsthand knowledge, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs produced for the New Deal's Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide most of the images that come to mind when we think of the 1930s. That novel and those photographs, as this book shows, share a history. Fully exploring this complex connection for the first time, Picturing Migrants offers new insight into Steinbeck's novel and the FSA's photography-and into the circumstances that have made them enduring icons of the Depression. Looking at the work of Dorothea Lange, Horace Bristol, Arthur Rothstein, and Russell Lee, it is easy to imagine that these images came straight out of the pages of The Grapes of Wrath. This should be no surprise, James R. Swensen tells us, because Steinbeck explicitly turned to photographs of the period to create his…
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Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography Volume 18 Paperback - 2022
by James R. Swensen
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- Title Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography Volume 18
- Author James R. Swensen
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
- Date 2022-09-27
- ISBN 9780806191553 / 0806191554
- Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 in (27.69 x 21.34 x 1.52 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.52
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